Category: <span>Funding</span>

Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowships – closing 6 Nov 2025

Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowships are open to experienced researchers, particularly those who are or have been prevented by routine duties from completing a programme of original research. Priority will be given to applicants whose teaching and administrative duties have significantly impacted their ability to undertake research in the three years …

Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship – closing 28 Oct 2025

The Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship (DHF) programme aims to support outstanding early career scientists who require a flexible working pattern due to personal circumstances, such as caring responsibilities and/or health-related conditions. The programme aims to enable the next generation of research leaders to: Build an independent research career at a UK …

Royal Society Short Industry Fellowship – closing 23 Oct 2025

Deadline: 23 Oct 2025 This scheme is part of the Royal Society’s Industry programme, and facilitates short dynamic engagements between scientists employed in industry or academia (including postdoctoral researchers), enabling the parties to collaborate on a mutually beneficial project. Awards can be held full time for 3-6 months, or 50% …

Royal Society Career Development Fellowship 2026

Funder webinar: 7 Oct 2025 12-13:00 UK Register here Submission deadline: 19 Nov 2025 The Royal Society’s Career Development Fellowship scheme for 2026 is a 4-year programme that aims to support retention in STEM of researchers from underrepresented groups, particularly those making the transition from postgraduate to early postdoctoral stages.  …

Elemental UK-US Critical Minerals Travel Grants

Webinar & Networking: Tues 30 Sept 17:00 UK  Register here Application Deadline: Wed 15 Oct 2025, 17:00 UK The Elemental Hub has launched Catalysing New UK-US Critical Minerals Research Partnerships, a scheme designed to strengthen transatlantic collaboration on critical minerals and materials (CMM). Funded by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and …

Resource Efficiency Feasibility Studies – briefing webinar 22 Sept 2025

Online briefing: 22 Sept 2025, 10-11:00 UK Competition deadline: 3 Nov 2025, 11:00 am UK Resource efficiency for resilience and sustainability: Feasibility Studies is an open competition for UK registered organisations to apply for a share of up to £1.1 million for feasibility studies in novel, sustainable, low carbon materials …

EPSRC: Unlocking the full potential of nature-based engineering

Closing date: 23 Oct 2025 16:00 UK EPSRC is calling for grant applications to conduct research in nature-based engineering, defined in EPSRC’s Tomorrow’s Engineering Research Challenges report as developing systems and technologies inspired by nature. Teams must include two or more researchers from different areas and at least one early …

New Engineering Biology ICURe Discover launched

Deadline: Tues 23 Sept 2025 BBSRC has launched a new Engineering Biology ICURe Discover programme with Innovate UK Business Connect and The Helix Way. This is a part-time online market exploration programme for bioscience researchers and technicians in the field of Engineering Biology, with up to £2,500 support for market …

Royal Society Industry Fellowships – deadline 18 Sept 2025

The Royal Society’s Industry Fellowship scheme is open to UK-based academic and industrial researchers from early to senior career stages. The scheme aims to: Support the mobility of excellent researchers between the two sectors in the UK across the natural sciences Enable the Industry Fellow to develop and establish collaborative …

Potential new BBSRC ICURe Discover programme

The National Biofilms Innovation Centre (NBIC) and BBSRC are discussing the idea of running a biofilm-focused ICURe Discover programme to start in autumn this year. BBSRC ICURe Discover is a part-time online market discovery programme designed to support researchers and technicians in exploring the potential market to commercialise their biofilm …

Engineering Biology SPARK Funding

Opens: 02 June 2025 Closes: 09 July 2025 Engineering Biology SPARK Awards will fund UK academic institutions or Research & Technology Organisations (RTOs) to deliver an engineering biology project that addresses a challenge posed by a UK-registered Small and Medium-sized Enterprise (SME), or enhances the SME’s progress towards developing new products, …